International Journal of Earth Sciences

International Journal of Earth Sciences is the official journal of the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung, published by Springer in Berlin, and it continues a series begun in 1910 with process-oriented work on the history of the Earth, carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9.《国际地球科学杂志》是德国地质学会（Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung）的会刊，由 Springer 在柏林出版，承续 1910 年创刊的刊系，登载以过程为导向的地球历史研究，2025 年影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• Every submission has to explain a process and not merely describe a locality, because the remit is the history of the Earth read from rocks, structures and fossils.每篇稿件都要解释一种地质过程，不能只描述某个地点，因为刊物关注的是从岩石，构造与化石中读出的地球历史。

• Lithospheric dynamics form the first pillar, taking in mantle convection, crustal thickness, rifting, basin subsidence and the thermal and mechanical behaviour of the plates.岩石圈动力学是第一大板块，涉及地幔对流，地壳厚度，裂谷作用，盆地沉降以及板块的热学与力学行为。

• Tectonics and volcanology sit beside it, with orogenic belts, subduction zones, fault kinematics and the plumbing that feeds eruptions all read as evidence of deeper process.构造地质学与火山学紧随其后，造山带，俯冲带，断层运动学以及供给喷发的岩浆通道均被视为深部过程的证据。

• Sedimentology enters through provenance analysis, facies architecture, sequence stratigraphy and the diagenetic overprint that records a burial history.沉积学通过物源分析，沉积相架构，层序地层以及记录埋藏史的成岩改造进入刊物。

• Palaeontology and the evolution of life are handled with the same process lens, from extinction events and recovery intervals to the co-evolution of organisms and their chemical environment.古生物学与生命演化同样按过程视角处理，涵盖灭绝事件，复苏期以及生物与化学环境之间的协同演化。

• Marine and continental ecosystems appear as archives of past environments, with reef systems, lacustrine records and terrestrial floras read for climate signals.海洋与大陆生态系统作为古环境档案出现，礁体系统，湖泊沉积与陆生植物群都被用来解读气候信号。

• Global dynamics of physicochemical cycles take in carbon and sulfur budgets, isotopic tracers, weathering fluxes and the coupling between ocean chemistry and atmospheric composition.物理化学循环的全球动力学涉及碳硫收支，同位素示踪，风化通量以及海水化学与大气组成之间的耦合。

• Mineral deposits and hydrocarbons belong to the core list, and ore-forming systems, fluid pathways, basin maturation and resource geology are judged on what they reveal about crustal processes.矿床与油气属于核心选题，成矿系统，流体通道，盆地成熟度与资源地质按其对理解地壳过程的贡献来衡量。

• Surface processes close the list, covering erosion, sediment routing, glacial and fluvial landforms, soil development and the rates at which landscapes respond to tectonics and climate.地表过程收束了这一清单，涉及侵蚀，泥沙输移，冰川与河流地貌，土壤发育以及地貌响应构造与气候的速率。

• Regional studies are welcome on condition that the wider implication is argued, so a paper on a single massif must still speak to a process recognised elsewhere.区域研究受欢迎，前提是论证更广的含义，因此只讲一个地块的论文也必须回应别处能够辨认的过程。

• Field mapping, geochronology, isotope geochemistry and geophysical imaging count as tools, and each paper states the precision and the limits of the method it used.野外填图，年代学，同位素地球化学与地球物理成像被视为工具，每篇论文都要交代所用方法的精度与局限。

• Review papers form a standing category of their own, and they are expected to synthesise a live debate instead of listing what has already been published.综述论文是常设体裁，要求综合一场仍在进行的争论，不能只罗列已有文献。

• Thematic issues grow out of conferences and working groups, and their papers pass through the same review as ordinary submissions.专题辑多由会议与工作组催生，其中的论文与常规投稿走同样的评审。

• Authors deposit geochemical tables, sample coordinates and age data so that a reader can test the interpretation against the numbers rather than take it on trust.作者需提交地球化学数据表，样品坐标与年龄数据，使读者能拿数字检验解释，不必仅凭信任接受结论。

• Length is not fixed by genre, although a short paper that reports one new age without a process argument is usually returned without review.篇幅不按体裁限定，但只报告一个新年龄而没有过程论证的短稿，多半不送审即退回。

History

• The title began in 1910 as Geologische Rundschau, a German-language review journal that gathered the state of the art in central European geology.该刊 1910 年以德文刊名《Geologische Rundschau》创刊，汇集当时中欧地质学的进展。

• Its original function was synthesis, with long articles surveying a region or a method for readers who could not follow the primary literature of every subfield.最初的功能是综合，长篇论文评述某一地区或某一方法，服务那些无法追踪各分支原始文献的读者。

• Volume numbering has run on continuously since then, and the German series closed with volume 87 in 1998.卷号自此连续编排，德文刊系止于 1998 年的第 87 卷。

• Volume 88 appeared in 1999 under the English title, and the old name survived as a subtitle in library catalogues for years afterwards.第 88 卷于 1999 年以英文刊名问世，旧名此后多年仍作为副题留在图书馆目录中。

• The change tracked the readership, since earth scientists outside the German-speaking countries had become the journal's main authors and its most frequent readers.更名随读者群而定，德语区之外的地球科学家已成刊物的主要作者与最常翻阅的读者。

• Springer-Verlag in Berlin took the renamed title, and the imprint has stayed with Springer through its later merger into Springer Nature.更名后的刊物由柏林的 Springer-Verlag 承接，此后随集团并入 Springer Nature，出版方再未变动。

• The old ISSN 0016-7835 was retired and replaced by 1437-3254 for print and 1437-3262 for the electronic edition, and the National Library of Medicine still records both numbers against one title.旧号 0016-7835 停用，印刷版改用 1437-3254，电子版为 1437-3262，美国国家医学图书馆至今把新旧号著录在同一刊名下。

• PubMed lists the journal for selected citations only, which suits a geology title whose papers seldom reach biomedical indexes.PubMed 只按选摘收录该刊，这对一份论文很少进入生物医学索引的地质刊物而言合乎常规。

• Eight issues a year now make up a volume, and the 2025 volume is the 114th in a sequence reaching back to the founding.现在每年八期组成一卷，2025 年为第 114 卷，卷号一路追溯到创刊之年。

• Impact factors of the past five years read 2.523 for 2021, 2.698 for 2022, 1.8 for 2023, 2.0 for 2024 and 1.9 for 2025.近五年影响因子依次为 2021 年 2.523，2022 年 2.698，2023 年 1.8，2024 年 2.0，2025 年 1.9。

• In the 2025 reports the journal ranks 156 of 259 in Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.47 and a percentile of 40.在 2025 年的报告中，该刊于地球科学综合类目 259 份刊物里排第 156 位，期刊引文指标为 0.47，百分位为 40。

• A cited half-life of 11.5 years and 5977 citations in total describe a back catalogue that keeps being read long after publication.11.5 年的引用半衰期与 5977 次总被引，说明旧文在发表多年之后仍被阅读。

• Output stays modest, with 56 articles counted for 2025, which leaves the impact factor sensitive to the fate of individual papers.发文量维持在中等水平，2025 年计 56 篇，影响因子因此对单篇论文的命运较为敏感。

• Access has been hybrid throughout, the gold share recorded for 2025 is 40.23 per cent, and open articles appear under a Creative Commons licence.刊物一直采用混合模式，2025 年记录的金色开放获取比例为 40.23%，开放论文按知识共享许可发布。

• Geologische Rundschau translates as geological review, and the reviewing habit survived the rename in the long synthesis papers the journal still prints.旧名意为地质评论，这种评论传统在更名后延续下来，体现为刊物至今仍登的长篇综合论文。

Editors

• Ulrich Riller of Universität Hamburg holds the editor-in-chief position, and his own research on Precambrian crustal architecture and impact structures matches the structural bent of the journal.主编为（Ulrich Riller），任职于 Universität Hamburg，其研究集中在前寒武纪地壳架构与撞击构造，与刊物的构造地质取向相合。

• His base is the geological institute in Hamburg, so editorial control sits inside a university department and not in a commercial office.编辑部设在汉堡的地质研究所，编辑权因此留在大学院系之内，不在商业机构手中。

• The journal is the official publication of the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung, and the society's name stands on the masthead beside the publisher's.该刊是德国地质学会（Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung）的官方刊物，学会名称与出版方并列于刊头。

• Twenty-four names stand on the board in all, the editor-in-chief and 23 members, eight of them in Germany and the rest spread across 14 countries.编委名单共 24 人，主编一人、编委 23 人，其中 8 人在德国，其余分布在 14 个国家。

• The aims statement asks every paper to explain a process, which is the first test a manuscript meets before the science behind it is weighed.宗旨声明要求每篇论文解释一种过程，这是稿件在学术分量被衡量之前要过的第一道关。

• Proposals for special issues go to the editor-in-chief, and the reply is settled jointly by the editor and the publisher before the proposer hears it.专辑提案先送主编，答复由主编与出版方共同商定后再告知提案人。

• A guest editor who contributes a paper to their own collection is kept out of its review, while the rest of the collection follows the ordinary procedure.客座编辑若为自己的专辑撰稿，便不参与该文的评审，专辑其余稿件仍走常规流程。

• Review is single-blind, so referees know who wrote the paper while authors learn nothing about the identity of their critics.评审采用单盲，审稿人知道作者是谁，作者则无从得知批评者的身份。

• The journal reports a median of six days from submission to first decision, and its articles drew 600.1 thousand downloads in 2025.刊物公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为六天，2025 年文章下载量达 60.01 万次。

• Manuscripts enter through Editorial Manager, and the checklist asks for a title page, a graphical abstract and statements of competing interests and authorship.稿件经 Editorial Manager 递交，核查清单要求标题页、图文摘要，以及利益冲突与作者贡献声明。

• Ethics, authorship and image manipulation fall under the publisher's integrity procedure, written to the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics.伦理，署名与图像处理问题按出版方的诚信程序办理，该程序依照出版伦理委员会的指南写成。

• Authors are asked to archive the primary data behind a paper, since the guidelines treat access to that data as part of what makes a result usable.作者须归档论文所依据的原始数据，指南把数据的可获取视为结果可用的前提之一。